This year my district is putting an emphasis on culturally responsive teaching. In a lot of ways, I think many educators are already doing some CRT as part of their daily teaching or part of their unit. One of my teacher besties recently completed her graduate program and wrote her thesis on CRT approaches and strategies. In sitting down and talking with her for a half hour, I had such a better understanding of what CRT might look like in the classroom and simple ways to start out using it to guide instruction and increase student engagement. The biggest take away that I had in our conversation is that "culture" does not necessarily refer to the culture of the student (Hispanic or African American for example), but rather the students' IDENTITY. Once it was explained in that way, something clicked and I knew I could start with something easy and small.
- Toy Story 4
- Minions 3
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Super hero movies
- Dog movies
- Wreck It Ralph
- Pokeman
- Spiderman Into the Spiderverse
- Dumbo
- Fortnite
- Sleeping (believe me - I wish I could have a little siesta during the day too!)
- Games
- Swimming (I was surprised that there were several of this response - we all must be in summer mode still!)
- Technology
- Math
- Board games
- Video games
- Art
- Slime
- Bike riding
- Recess
- Using instruments
- Eating/Cooking
- Free time
- LEGOs
- Drawing